Lyndenlea

Welcome to Lyndenlea

If you're wondering where the rest of this website's gone, don't worry - it's all been safely
moved to the new About Lyndenlea site.

As the Lyndenlea websites are so many and varied, I've decided to bring back a feature that
used to adorn this page until 2005. That feature is the Site Index,
offering a brief introduction and of course links to each site. This incarnation is considerably
less garish than the original, however, not least because some of the sites' colour schemes have
been toned down a little in the intervening years.

If Lyndenlea is "my home on the web" then this is surely the front door. It could
almost be described as a meta-website - a website about websites - as much of its
content describes the various features I've incorporated. But the jewel in the crown has to be
the section about the poem and its somewhat random juxtaposition with the apple tree in my
garden.

Way back in May 2004 this site was launched to provide a new home for an already rather
archaic route-finder for church bell ringers. Now it's a valuable source of information about
church bells past and present in and around Bristol and Bath. The route-finder's still there,
though, doing sterling work for anyone who - like myself - hasn't yet jumped onto the Sat-Nav
bandwagon.

The second of my major historical research projects, this time looking at roadside
milestones. These sentinels of mileage are now slowly disappearing into the undergrowth,
unused and rarely noticed by today's high-speed travellers. I've been out photographing and
recording many of the milestones that remain around Bristol and Bath so you can see them all
from the comfort of your own home.

An entire website all about me and what I get up to when I'm not busy with my research
projects. It's largely there to give you an idea of the person behind the name at the bottom
of the page, but there are some interesting little gems hidden away in its darker corners too.
Keep your mind open if you decide to venture in as I've pretty much let myself run riot.

This project actually started out as one of those hidden gems in a dark corner of my
personal site. Here, my Dad Colin and I investigate the old Eight Queens Puzzle, teasing out
answers to questions that nobody's thought to ask and expanding the puzzle beyond the standard
64-square chessboard. Check out my brilliant chessboard diagrams, all made out of pure HTML
and CSS code.

Latest Site News

Saturday, 16th February 2013

After continuing to suffer an unending stream of spam email through my website, in spite of the blacklist I set up in November 2009 and maintained until two
years ago (hands up all those who guessed I'd soon get bored with that approach!), I've finally succumbed to the inevitability of the Turing Test.
All the feedback and error reporting forms on the Lyndenlea websites now include one that I hope remains as accessible as possible while still foxing those pesky
spam-bots, and to test it properly I've temporarily disabled my entire blacklist, so it had better work!